Disney and the Seduction of the Innocent!

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Award-winning film director Gurinder Chadha is calling for more films to be made specifically for children, claiming that blockbusters made by companies such as Disney have lost a sense of 'innocence and wonderment' because they are filled with 'in-jokes' aimed at adults ...

'One of the head guys at Disney categorically said to me, "We don't want to make children's films any more. We want to make films that are going to appeal to all quadsrant",' ...

... 'Hence you have films like Shrek and all the Pixar stuff, which is designed to suit everybody.'

The trend has an unacknowledged downside, she added. 'They probably lose the innocence and the wonderment. Because, for adults, the gags have to be knowing. Children kind of get them because they live in this celebrity world, but there is a lost sense of innocence.'

Chadha, 47, cited her memories of a childhood favourite of her own, a little-known Disney film called Pablo and the Dancing Chihuahua, about a Mexican boy travelling with his dog. 'I was transported to Mexico and to the desert, to this happy little dog and to this boy trying to go on an adventure,' she said. 'Now that was a proper kids film.

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Footnotes:

Who will protect our children?

Not this man. And don't trust his cries of free lolly!

This man can no long help your children and no amount of Happy Meals will change that.

This man used to beat his children with his work shoe when they were bad. When they were good he would beat them with his rubber shoe.

Dr. Frederic Wertham tried to warn you but you didn't listen. And now he is dead.

Millionaire Phil Gramm won't help us and can we please stop whining about it?

With nowhere to go, babies turn to religion

Is Highlight Magazine trying to wide their "quadrant"?

Is this the quadrant Disney is hoping will attend its movies?

How many F-bombs does Brendan Fraser drop in his "children's" movie Journey to the Center of the Earth?

Child photographed exiting Wall-E ... will she ever recover? What effect will it have on her precious child's size brain?